Unofficial add-on for SolidCraft

Sign Maker for SolidCraft

Type a line of text, pick a font, and export a two-colour 3D-print sign that drops straight into your slicer.

Download the latest release See it on GitHub

Windows · macOS · Linux · Free and open source (MIT) · Plate on filament 1, text on filament 2

Watch it in action

Type it, print it: a two-colour 3D-print sign in one click, from the first letter to the slicer.

Sign Maker: Type It, Print It. Two-Colour 3D-Print Signs in One Click ▶ Watch on YouTube

Download

Choose your platform. The installers and bundles are built automatically for every release.

Windows 10 and 11

Setup exe, or a portable zip that runs from any folder.

Get the Windows build

macOS 11+

Apple silicon. Unsigned, so right-click the app and choose Open the first time.

Get the Mac build

Linux x86_64

Tarball built on Ubuntu. On aarch64, run from source with run.sh.

Get the Linux build

SolidCraft is a separate install. Sign Maker drives SolidCraft's headless solidcraft-cli to build and preview the model — the 2D preview works without it. The Windows setup is not code-signed, so SmartScreen may say “Windows protected your PC”: choose More info, then Run anyway.

What it does

A small, focused tool: one line of text, real measurements, two colours, and a file your slicer understands.

One line, any font

Pick any installed font, or browse to a .ttf, .otf or .ttc. Bold uses the family’s own bold face.

Real dimensions

Plate, thickness, raise, margin, corner radius and letter spacing — with auto-fit so the text always fits inside the margins.

Two colours

Plate and text colours from swatches, presets, or any #RRGGBB you like, including engraved inlays.

Instant 2D preview

True proportions, drawn from the real font file, so you see the sign before SolidCraft is even involved.

Live 3D preview

SolidCraft’s own render of the sign that will print, rebuilt in the background a moment after you stop typing.

Slicer-ready 3MF

One object, two parts: Plate on filament 1 and Text on filament 2, already in place.

The Make button

A little steam while it builds

Press Make 3MF. A few small wisps curl off the button for about four seconds while the sign is built, then fade away. No confetti, no fuss.

Go on — press it.

Screenshots

The window below is the real app. Click any picture for the full size.

The Sign Maker window: the word Workshop in cream on a navy plate, with the 2D preview and SolidCraft's 3D preview. — Every font in the list is drawn in its own typeface, with a live 2D preview beside it.

Sign Maker in its dark theme: the word Welcome in white on a red plate. — The sea-green dark theme.

A dimension sheet for a Workshop sign, showing measurements on a 3D view of the plate. — Every sign comes with a dimension sheet, saved next to the 3MF.

SolidCraft's 3D preview of a raised Welcome sign, white letters on a red plate. — Raised letters on the plate, rendered by SolidCraft — exactly what prints.

What’s new

Full notes for every release are on the releases page.

1.1.5
Press Make 3MF and a few small wisps curl off the button for about four seconds, then fade away. The saved-file twinkle is still there.
1.1.4
The Make 3MF button twinkles when the file has been saved — a quiet “that worked” that only appears on success.

Before you start

Sign Maker is the friendly front end; SolidCraft does the modelling.

SolidCraft, with its CLI

Install SolidCraft from its releases page. On Windows use the MSI or the portable zip — the single-file exe has no CLI. If it isn’t found, point Sign Maker at solidcraft-cli with Browse.

Or run from source

Python 3.10 or newer, then pip install -r requirements.txt and start run.bat, run.command or run.sh.